UWS POST PHASE=RUN

[Walter Landry]

Dave Morris <dave.morris at metagrid.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> On 2014-11-05 15:53, Walter Landry wrote:
>> Dave Morris <dave.morris at metagrid.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Allowing the job to be modified while it is still in the PENDING phase
>>> is useful, because it provides a way for the client and server to
>>> negotiate the details of the job, as described in Pat's example.
>> Just to be clear, I am proposing getting rid of PENDING.  To handle
>> the Patrick's use-case, you can ask the service for estimates, but you
>> can not modify anything that is persistent.  You can only cancel them.
>> 
> 
> Sorry - that wouldn't work for us.
> 
> Modifiable PENDING jobs are an integral part of the way our service
> works.
> 
> Amongst other things we use it to validate the ADQL syntax before
> actually running a query.

You do not have to have a persistent job just for validation.
Generating estimates would necessarily validate.

Cheers,
Cheers,
Walter Landry